deny

[de·ny]

To deny means refuse to accept, recognize, or believe. You can deny your sweet tooth all you want, but the stash of candy in your desk tells a different story.

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To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

Verb
declare untrue; contradict; "He denied the allegations"; "She denied that she had taken money"

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refuse to accept or believe; "He denied his fatal illness"

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refuse to recognize or acknowledge; "Peter denied Jesus"

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deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit

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refuse to let have; "She denies me every pleasure"; "he denies her her weekly allowance"

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Verb
deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure; "She denied herself wine and spirits"

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refuse to grant, as of a petition or request; "The dean denied the students'' request for more physics courses"; "the prisoners were denied the right to exercise for more than 2 hours a day"

v. t.
To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

v. t.
To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce.

v. t.
To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.

v. t.
To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.

v. i.
To answer in /// negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.

Deny

De*ny" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Denied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Denying.] [OE. denien, denaien, OF. denier, deneer, F. d'82nier, fr. L. denegare; de- + negare to say no, deny. See Negation.] 1. To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit. &hand; We deny what another says, or we deny the truth of an assertion, the force of it, or the assertion itself. 2. To refuse (to do something or to accept something); to reject; to decline; to renounce. [Obs.] "If you deny to dance." Shak. 3. To refuse to grant; to withhold; to refuse to gratify or yield to; as, to deny a request.

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.

4. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, and the like; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.

The falsehood of denying his opinion.

Thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved.

To deny one's self, to decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to practice self-denial.

Let him deny himself, and take up his cross.

Deny

De*ny", v. i. To answer in negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.

Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid.

To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

To answer in negative; to declare an assertion not to be true.

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Usage Examples

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

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Other Usage Examples

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.